Advanced
Reasoning Global PBL Academies
are advancing deeper learning and school redesign with ARIEs
team of expert PBL practitioners. ARIEs team have taken their
years of 100% PBL practical practitioner approach to deeper learning
in 21st century education and are collaborating with educators all
over the world to improve Education.

Advanced Reasoning
Global PBL Academies have created and honed PBL professional development
that no other PBL course has been able to match. ARIEs trainers
have actual, relevant, 100% PBL classroom experience. In fact, the
classroom is our proving ground for testing innovative ways to engage
students and rekindle the fire in teachers. We still hold true to
those things that work, but if there is a way to do it better, we
seek to find it and refine it.
If you are interested in stretching your deeper learning approach
to include 21st Century skills, to improve the culture of your classroom
or campus, and inspire students to want to learn, Advanced Reasoning
Global PBL Academy can help you. If you are interested in attending
or hosting an Advanced Reasoning Global PBL Academy contact us today.

Advanced Reasoning
in Education is led by Steven Zipkes, former founding principal of
Manor
New Technology High in Manor, TX. After 10 years of impacting
21st century education and influencing educators and leaders from
all over the world, Zipkes has expanded his school redesign vision
of creativity, deeper learning practices, and systemic change that
transformed an idea into a Nationally Recognized, 100%Project Based
Learning STEM School, and formed Advanced Reasoning In Education.

Manor New Tech's Think
Forward Institute (TFI) is a 3-day intense PBL training institute for
Manor ISD, K-12, and for other school districts in Texas and elsewhere.
Since the school's launch in 2007, the school's faculty has developed master-level
skills in Project-Based Learning and 21st Century Teaching and Learning
and now trains teachers districtwide and K-12 from Manor ISD and from across
the nation through TFI. Manor New Tech will also
send a faculty team to conduct TFI
at your own school site anywhere. Manor New Tech is located in Central
Texas, just northeast of Austin.

Manor New Tech is one
of the country's most innovative STEM 21st Century schools. I highly recommend
TFI to teams from schools that are transforming to 21st Century Teaching
and Learning. I also recommend that such teams send an advance delegation
to one of Manor New Tech's full-day Study Tours. --
Bob, August 2012

Think
Forward Project Based Learning Institute

Think
Forward Brochure

Registration

Daily
Schedule for 4-day Institute

Think Forward Institute
Dates for Fall 2014: (Coming)***Note: Cohorts are
limited to 24 participants. To inquire about a custom non-scheduled Think
Forward Institute date at either Manor New Tech or at your district, please
contact one of the below:

Steve Zipkes, Founding
Principal

Chrysta Carlin

Stephanie Ehler,
Master Teacher

Study Tour
Dates for 2014-2015, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Daily
Schedule for 4-day Institute (Revised to 3-days starting 2014):

Message from Manor New Tech Principal Steve Zipkes
about the "Powerful Engaging PBL Professional Development"
that will be provided at this summer's Think Forward PBL Institute,
June 17-19

April 2, 2014

Greetings from Manor New Tech,

Summer is almost upon us and it is time to begin looking for professional
development opportunities for you, your colleagues, and your staff.
However, budgets are tight and you want to ensure the PD you are investing
in is transforming and developing self efficacy within those attending.
If you are anything like me I have restructured my PD for staff based
upon feedback from those attending. I was tired of hearing about restaurants
and sites when I asked about the PD. There was no sense of real investment
or transformative information received from those that attended.

This is why I am sending you this email. Project Based Learning (PBL)
is being looked at as a viable pedagogical approach in delivering
instruction at the local, State, and National levels. While you can
search for PBL training online and you will most certainly find more
and more institutions and companies coming on line to offer training
I wanted to tell you about Think Forward PBL Institute.

Think Forward PBL Institute began as a way for Manor New Technology
High School to maintain capacity within our own campus. However, as
more and more visitors went through the school they asked how they
could get to the level of 100% PBL as we have been for 7 years. We
began providing Think Forward PBL Institute during the school year
51/2 years ago and continue to this day. Think Forward PBL is highly
successful as our teacher practitioner/ trainers wrote and conduct
the actual training for other practitioners.The trainers have created,
developed and have actually run anywhere from 50-120 projects each
in their classrooms and continue to this day. THIS IS EXTREMELY POWERFUL
to have actual experienced practicing practitioners training other
practitioners. As Think Forward PBL grew and the number of teacher
practitioners trained and visitors have come through Manor New Tech
we began having more and more requests to provide site trainings at
different school sites around the country.

Please take a moment to view the links and consider our Think Forward
PBL Summer Summit or PBL training needs for your site this Summer.
We offer PBL Training as well as Adaptive PBL Leadership Training
and Consultation.

We do not offer you everything under the Sun, but we will offer you
a PD that will challenge, engage, develop agency and help transform
your pedagogical approach to instruction where you will learn the
PROCESS of PBL and develop a standards based, teacher created authentic
project to actually launch in you class or classes. This training
is a process training and works irregardless of your content and grade
level.

Please view the links for more information and thank you for your
consideration.

Message from Manor New Tech Principal Steve Zipkes announcing
11 Regional Think
Forward PBL Regional Conferences across the US in 2014-2015:
2 in Florida, 2 in California, 1 in Colorado, 1 in Chicago,
1 in Boston, 1 in Washington, DC, 1 in Houston, and 2 in Arkansas.

October 6, 2014

Greetings Friend,

This is Steven Zipkes, Founding Principal of Manor New Technology
High School a 100% PBL school and a Nationally recognized STEM School.

The purpose for my email is to bring exciting news. For the last
6.5 years we have trained teacher/practitioners and leaders in deeper
project based learning processes through our Think Forward PBL Institute.
We have trained over 1000 teachers all over the US and in 4 different
Countries; Great Britain, Canada, Mexico, and China. This past Summer
we held Think Forward PBL Summer Summit where we had 120 teachers
from RI, NY, LA, OK, IL, ND, UT, MI, OH,TX, CA and 8 teachers from
China. It was an overwhelming success.

Over the last 3 years I have had more and more requests for our training
to be held at the requesting school or District as it is more cost
effective to have us go there than have 30-60 teachers from a district
come to us. With the increased demand for Think Forward PBL deeper
training and our passion for Project Based Learning we are holding
11 Regional Think Forward PBL Institutes being held throughout the
US. We are holding 2 Think Forward PBL Institutes in Florida and 2
in California, 1 in Colorado, 1 in Chicago, 1 in Boston, 1 in Washington
DC, 1 in Houston, and 2 in Arkansas. Find out more at thinkforwardpbl.org.

Our training is 3 days of intense deeper learning processes of PBL.
Think Forward PBL Institute is taught by practicing teachers/trainers
that have 5-8 years of 100% PBL instruction at Manor New Tech. Each
trainer has an average of 100-150 individual projects completed. Our
teacher/practitioners wrote each of the processes for the training
and it is the only training that I know of where each of the trainers
have been teaching at a 100% Project Based Learning school for 5 years
or longer most of the trainers have been teaching 100% PBL for the
last 8 years at MNTH. The power of a practicing 100% PBL teacher/trainer
teaching other practitioners the processes of PBL through Think Forward
has been voiced time and time again by participants to be the most
effective and substantial even by those who have been attended other
trainings in the past.
Here is the website to find out how to register for a Regional training.
thinkforwardpbl.org

In addition, if you google Manor New Technology High School you can
find a wealth of information such as; President Obama visited us last
year highlighting our PBL teaching, US Sec Arne Duncan highlighted
our school in 2010 as a Model School, We are a highlighted PBL "School
That Works" on Edutopia, George Lucas Educational Foundation,
I served on the high school redesign panel at the White House where
Manor New Tech was one of the 4 schools to model after in the recent
100 Million Dollar race to the top high school redesign grant, We
are a Bill Daggett,ICLE Model School, We have been an Apple Distinguished
School since 2008-9, and we have our own YouTube Channel with over
1500 teacher and student videos. In addition, I received the 2014
International STEM Visionary Award by The International Association
STEM Leaders and have been Keynote speaker at many events including
the US News and Reports STEM Solutions Conference just to name a few
items. We have much to share in PBL and best practices.

The intent of the Regional Think Forward PBL Insitutites and Conferences
are to provide deeper PBL training to as many interested educational
practitioners and leaders looking to change their pedagogical approach
of instruction to PBL while limiting the financial burden of extensive
travel costs for the entities by training in proximity of their home.

If interested in changing your instructional practice or deepen your
PBL practice I encourage you to take advantage of a Regional Think
Forward PBL Institute near you.